Keeping Busy

I can't believe I've had Daisy for over a week and I've only posted once about her, especially since there have certainly been things I could write about.  The first week back to school with a new set of chores to do went fairly smoothly.  Most days, I waited to get dressed until right before leaving because I've discovered that I get very dirty very easily when I feed and water Daisy.  Sometimes it's the mud, but usually it's when she hopes I have more food hidden somewhere, and she apparently thinks that somewhere is on my person.  Cattle are slobbery creatures!

I feed her in the morning -- about 4 pounds of cake, creep, and corn -- and again when I get home from school.  The after school feedings are a little more varied.  One day I bought apples for myself at the store, but they were both really mealy and nasty -- so I fed them to Daisy.  As I wrote in an email to my mom, she acted as though I'd given her crack and she was hooked the first time.  In my reading I've also discovered that cattle will eat potatoes and if there's anything we have a lot of it's spuds, so I fed her a potato one day.  Mostly, however, I just give her about half the ration of feed that I give her in the morning.

I also check her water twice a day, which wouldn't be as necessary to do if she didn't dump it as often.  I don't know if she likes to play with the giant-sized blue bucket or if she tips it over when she scratches her head on the edge, but half the time I find it somewhere across the yard.  Eventually I think we'll be tying it down, but John's the one who knows what to do with that.  I'm just the student.